oblio.bsky.social
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I generally don’t like the framing “if it weren’t for X, we wouldn’t have Y”…but it’s hard to imagine Prince without Sly’s blueprint.
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Is the phrase “this is not what we voted for” ever used in a context that’s not criminally stupid?
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And, it can be an opportunity for pointless and narcissistic navel-gazing, too!
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CFB players have said that a CD academy teams are hard to play because they don’t get fatigued in the 4th quarter. Even if they’re not the best players, they never run out of gas.
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Behold! My management team in action! (Or is a croissant I had the other day?)
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Did you get the ones with the opening at the top? I’m a bit of an aficionado when in comes to mixing bowls, and in my opinion those are the best.
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I rewatched the movie earlier this year. Is it their best? Nope, but it’s got a decent plot, worthwhile villains (Sig Rumann!), and plenty of room for the Marxes to do their thing.
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Agreed! And the impact to the colleges should be minimal, even though they insist that a successful sports team benefits the whole school.
My anecdotal observation is that you never read about a school lowering tuition because they just won an NCAA championship.
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“That reminds me…I must get my watch fixed.”
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My assumption is that someone told him it was a monumentally stupid idea, so he’ll do it for the rest of his life just out of spite.
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“Colleague”? That’s a supervisor if I’ve ever seen one.
My supervisor:
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good piece highlighting the trend from @annamerlan.bsky.social www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Then they heard the same story from four more neighbors. Evidently, he was scamming multiple neighbors out of food with his “poor abandoned kitty” routine.
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My parents used to have an outdoor cat. Once, they went on vacation and arranged to have their next door neighbor give him food and water.
When they got back, another neighbor told them, “Hey, did you forget about your cat? He was at our house begging for food.”
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My family predates the Revolutionary War, but due to my father’s Army service, I was born in a civilian hospital in Germany. It takes a ton of paperwork to prove that I’m not a Nazi spy!
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Bribes and graft don’t count as “business ventures”.
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A counter-argument: Republicans haven’t really cared about the rule of law since the days of Newt Gingrich…they’ll pay lip service to the idea when it’s politically expedient, but it’s not a principle that drives their actions.
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Also, if they’re making it more like a Fox News broadcast, will it include commercials for vitamin supplements, gold brokers, and ED treatments?
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If it weren’t for the fact that our national security is risk, I’d find the notion of dumbing down an INTELLIGENCE briefing to be deliciously ironic.
The problem isn’t that the briefings aren’t simple enough - the problem is that the audience for the briefings is too simple.
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My legacy will be this industrial roll of wrapping paper. A bookstore I worked at was throwing it out because they stopped offering gift wrap. Been using it for the last 27 years.
(The punchline: I have a second roll in the basement.)
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No, you’re missing the point. Stablecoins are ALWAYS worth ONE DOLLAR.
Except when they’re suddenly not, or when the issuers of the coin gamble away the cash reserves they were supposed to keep.
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Amateur. I worked in a large diner for a couple of summers, which included cleaning clean the big grill (a 3x6 foot metal slab). We deglazed it with a half-gallon of soda water and a giant scraper. Like a big sauna that smelled of bacon.
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Nothing about downloading millions of American’s data to mystery servers, or obvious illegal actions like the takeover of the Ministry of Peace? I guess WaPo forgot about all that.
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What the heck is this about? Must be something about Stephen Miller…oh, and his wife…and Elon??…geez, holy hell…
Well, eyes, we’ve had a good run, but I have to gouge you out now…
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I had trouble reading past the opening sentence: “In contrast to his aging predecessor, President Trump appears robust and energetic.”
To me, he “appears” to be fat, cranky and irritable, and showing symptoms of progressive dementia.
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Imagine the unholy bastard child of Clippy and HAL 9000. Just as annoying as the original, but also spyware!
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I agree with the idea that we need more people in the trades, but decreasing the number of liberal arts majors won’t change that at all.
The solution is to find ways to incentivize more people to go into the trades. Unfortunately this administration doesn’t seem interest in putting in the work.
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How long is the media going to tiptoe around Trump’s cognitive decline? They’re happy to pile on Joe Biden, but pretend that Trump is okay despite showing numerous signs of dementia (being impatient, easily frustrated, short attention span, memory lapses, diminished language use, etc.)
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In France, anyone caught in public without a baguette can be subject to a significant fine!